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Monthly Archives: February 2007
A Turd Grows in Brooklyn
Let us turn for a nano-second from the site of Britney’s panty-less in-betweenness to a more important site — the Atlantic Yards project, a $4 billion office and residential development that would build an arena for the Nets and 16 … Continue reading
Best Bar for a Secret Affair
ALTHOUGH WE DISAPPROVE OF THE VERY NOTION OF CHEATING, we couldn’t help noticing that the grottoes and secret rooms (made unbearably sordid by banquettes and plushy pillows and decor worthy of a pasha’s bedroom) of below-street-level Shalel Lounge on 65 … Continue reading
Flash!
Sex secrets from Judith Regan. One-time power editor for Harper Collins, recently sacked by media cadaver Rupert Murdoch, is examined by Michael Wolff in the March Vanity Fair. Regan, Wolff claims, is all about power, and once bragged of her … Continue reading
Another dumb idea from Alex Rodriguez.
The only reason we have any use for Alex Rodriguez (pictured with his steroid bag) is that he messes with Jeter’s head, and the more messing with Jeter’s head, the better off the world will be. Now comes word that … Continue reading
It’s greenhouse gases, stupid.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change–also known at the United Nations report on Global Warming–stated this week that global warming is, without doubt, caused by human activity. What does this mean for New York City? A few scenarios if the … Continue reading
Dirty work, but somebody’s gotta do it.
TO GALES OF DERISIVE LAUGHTER FROM MANICURISTS AND PATRONS, we walked into An’s Beauty Nails at 132 West 72nd Street, one of New York City’s 3500 nail salons, and demanded our first pedicure. Except for the occasional bathtub romp and … Continue reading
Flash! New York Outlaws Thin People
BECAUSE WE ARE BRAIN-DAMAGED, we would love to be a member of the New York City Council, a group of not-too-bright people who have too much power (they approve the city’s bazillion-dollar budget). Example 1: Councilwoman Gale Brewer (above left) … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Fashion, The City
Tagged Ana Carolina Reston, Gale Brewer, Leroy Comrie
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…in which we become temporarily hip
AFTER 27 YEARS OF FUTILELY TRYING TO GET PAST VELVET ROPES GUARDED BY SNEERYING VELVET ROPE MEN, we finally entered the promised land–Republic, the noodle emporium on the west side of Union Square. Crowded with packs of bad and beautiful … Continue reading
The best at rest.
Two things about Molly Ivins, who passed today of cancer at 62, made us grit our teeth in envy — she was tall and she was funny. In astonishing contrast to the self-important boobs and sheep-like prigs who pretend to … Continue reading